Saturday Mind Dump

Here are a few thoughts as I conclude the week and look forward to starting a new week in the presence of the Almighty:

• 377 children experienced God's Word and presence at VBS. Was that great or what? "Aye, Aye, Jesus!" A huge thank you to all who worked over the last 4 months in preparation, the huge number of volunteers who worked during the week, and the many who stayed afterward to take down the decorations and prepare for Sunday worship. And a special thank you to Colene for her dedicated work to help our children take another step closer to God.
• Speaking of VBS... who knew that VBS worship was a weight loss program. Check out this video to see how our active praise of God is aerobic.

• Two churches will benefit from the hard work that our VBS design team put in over the last four months. They will be picking up many of those Styrofoam pieces so their children can enjoy the visual fun of VBS the way we did. I love it when churches help churches to be successful in their ministry.
• My sermon is going to challenge you to consider what things you're called to do, but are allowing someone else to do. What's your "Slacker" quotient?
• My phone somehow lost the ability to get voicemail. After over an hour with the Apple technical support we accidentally got it working again. Thanks to Breanna at Apple for her patience and perseverance as she walked me through the fix. If you left me a voicemail in the last couple of days, you might want to call back.